However, marching through St. Louis this past Sunday, demonstrators, holding aloft signs and banners depicting Obama in full Nazi garb, remained utterly oblivious of the fact that the Tea Party's own fanatical style of politics is itself incredibly similar to that previously embraced by leaders of the Third Reich.
"Put country first," yelled one deluded nationalist, apparently failing to recall the equally patriotic leanings of Germany's socialist worker's party.
"Stop Obamacare now and take back America!".
Meanwhile, posing angrily for the cameras, one demonstrator held up a sign comparing Obama's "cult of personality" status to that of Hitler, seemingly struggling to see similar and perhaps more obvious comparisons between Germany's former leader and mainstream Tea Party favorites, such as Glenn Beck, Michelle Bachman, and birther conspiracy theorist Donald Trump.
"Hitler, like Obama, was a charismatic and persuasive speaker," announced one particularly ill-informed cretin, "and like Obama, he prayed upon the fears of the very people he set out to lead... thank God for Sarah Palin."
Describing Obama's handling of the financial crisis as "authoritarian," Tea Partier Donnie Mitchell from Austin, Texas appeared unaware of the fact that the Nazi Party once employed near-identical protests against Germany's liberal-leaning establishment during the Great Depression, resulting in the eventual rise of the Third Reich.
"Obama's control over the banks is unconstitutional," continued Mitchell, nonetheless. "We must end the current politics in Washington and restore growth to the American economy."
Finally accusing Obama of somehow displaying both fascist and communist tendencies, Mitchell promised to do everything in his power to "prevent the rise of Communism in this great country" - unwittingly paraphrasing sentiments shared by Hitler throughout the early 1930s.
"End the status quo in Washington," insisted another flag-waving patriot - displaying no discernible knowledge that another of the Nazi Party's chief aims was to bring an end to the "business as usual" politics of the Weimar Republic.
"Obama equals fascism. Let the revolution begin."
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